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Did wordpress upgrade destroy all your unicode posts ?

I upgraded wordpress software for this blog to version 2.5.2. After that none of the posts that had devanagari (unicode) text looked okay. After comparing the configuration files, I discovered that the troubling variable is DB_CHARSET. The default config setting is ‘utf8′. But if you have been updating the software versions, your database table is [...]

Posted 27 April 2008 † amit § Internet § devanagari ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

Rescuing hosed server

This post describes the steps that I took to restore an old server which had died some months back.
I had a linux server running debian pretty reliably. It had failed because of a hardware problems (broken power supply). I replaced the power supply and proceeded to make it current with security fixes. But as it [...]

Posted 09 January 2007 † amit § Linux § Misc ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,